January 2010
39 posts
Bookworms - African Rhythms →
Check out the track “African Rhythms” on Bookworms’ myspace, fantastic tribal-psych-deep-house? I don’t know what to call it, it ain’t your average tribal shiz. Awesome. Discovered via Deep Movements
Joe Hallam's Top 100 Tracks of the Decade →
A fantastic list. He used to write for RandomCircuits.com, which I wrote for for a bit, and which is now unfortunately defunct.
An 18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life, Joyce Maynard,... →
An essay that drew J.D Salinger to its young author. She dropped out of Yale to go live with him, he broke up with her after less than a year.
Old DFW Interview--Quotes and Comments pt. 1
The Interview
A few quotes from the interview:
“We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character’s pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple. But now realize that...
kclu:
resident advisor’s top 100 for the decade
I saw this and considered posting it, too, great list! As I was scrolling down I was trying to guess what would be on top, I don’t know how it didn’t hit me… My main gripe is Studio being so low, but hey, at least they made it.
Five Dials Tribute to DFW →
Tributes by Amy Wallace-Havens, Don Delillo, George Saunders, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen. Some great writing about DFW, unfortunately the art alongside the text isn’t up to the same standards. Five Dials seems like a pretty good PDF-only, free lit mag.
Brian Eno Interview w/The Guardian →
“Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.”
Phylomon: like Pokemon cards, but with real... →
Ulysses "Seen" →
Whoa, Joyce’s Ulysses in comic form—an incredibly ambitious on-going project. Annotated with some really good in depth commentary.
Interesting interview with the creator of Martyrs →
Frank Kogan: - What's wrong with pretty girls? →
Great article about divergent attitudes towards mainstream pop.
Andy Kellman's 100 Favorite Albums of the Decade →
great list
Zadie Smith: "Kafka, Everyman"--on his alienation →
“Kafka’s horror is not Jewishness per se, because it is not a horror only of Jewishness: it is a horror of all shared experience, all shared being, all genus.”
Nice little thread on a couple land artists →
